Seeing Chris Lofton getting his due. I have been honored to see Ernie, Bernie, Allan, Dale and Chris play basketball at Tennessee. I had seats with life long friend Bob Holsaple who was the architect of several of the buildings on campus. I will always have those memories. Born and raised in Knoxville in 1942, I was able to see Tennessee basketball in the old field house, then Stokely, then the new current facility. I got to see as a kid the last year of the General, watched all the Major years with Buddy Cruze, seeing Doug Atkins, and so many more vols that made All-American. I got to see the doubling of the stadium after the engineers said that because of the caves underneath the stadium they couldn't double deck it. The closing of the endzone. I missed the Tennessee walking horse and the canon on the hill at the north end of the stadium. I was in the endzone when we stopped Billy Cannon to beat the LSU Bengal Tigers. I was in the Chancellor's box when we beat Auburn at put Bo Jackson out of the game. I was in the stands when the snake Stabler through the ball out of bounds on 4th down to stop the clock. I saw the building of Tom Black track, and the building of the aquatic center. I have seen the good times and have road out the bad times. It is so good to see the good times are back where we have a new AD which is putting Tennessee back in the sports lime light.
When age is a good thing
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